We are using Daniel Chapman as our main actor. Not only is he enthusiastic, but he's willing and he's available at the same times as us: period 3&4 on a tuesday and period 2 on a friday.
Daniel fits our original plan for the main character; 16/17, white, average teenager. Being 5'8'' with brown hair and eyes, he is a generic character, which makes sure the audience don't presume there is a racial or physical reason he's getting bullied. The more normal he is the more the audience relate to him, and the more potent the anti-bullying message is.
We have more than one location for our film opening. The main location will be the locker room in the sixth form block (room 005) in which will be filmed the bullying scene, where we get our first taste of the psychological torture he has to live through. The stark grey and bright artificial lighting give an eerie surreal feeling to the scene, which only enhances the disturbing nature of the discovery of the dead bird. It's also easily accessible, and empty during lesson time.
The other location is Daniel's house, where the film titles and very beginning is filmed. Because the opening sequence is supposed to create an atmosphere of normality and familiarity, filming this in a place Daniel is used to allows him to relax, and makes his acting more natural, and helps to further immerse the audience. Also, it being a teenagers room and house, aids in asserting the Teen film genre.
The costumes we are going to use in our film opening will be Daniel's everyday clothes, usually a striped longsleeves and skinny black jeans. We will use this because they are common clothes, easy to obtain and worn by modern teenagers. this will again affirm the Teen film genre, making Daniel recognisable as an average teenager, someone the audience can relate to.
At one point in the script, the main character's clothing gets switched with that of a small child, another aspect of the psychological bullying part of the film. These clothes will drastically differ from Daniel's normal clothing, being much smaller in size and brightly coloured to emphasise the cruelty of switching the clothes, but also the main character's humiliation in having to wear them.
Throughout the opening there is a variety of different props including a pillow with 'AB§ Productions' printed on it, a mirror, a mobile phone, a cereal box and a pair of trainers. These items will all be used in the beginning to show the opening titles, the names being written on these items as the main character picks them up and uses them as he gets ready. Names will be written in soap on the mirror as the main character brushes his teeth, typed into the mobile as he sends a text, drawn onto the side of his shoe as he bends down to lace them up and written on the side of the cereal box. This allows us to utilise the full two minutes whilst still including unique titles.
The main prop during our opening sequence will be a dead bird, although not a real one because of hygiene and moral issues. This prop is incredibly important because it not only marks a major change in mood, but also it symbolises the pain the main character has gone through, and it epitomises all the bullying he has had to endure. we don't yet have this prop, although it has come to our attention that the art department has a model dead bird we could use, which we will enquire about ASAP. If we cannot use that model, another option is to make one, and we already have a member who has volunteered to do so.
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